RaveComment\"Quatro’s first two books, then, explore in various ways the relationship between faith and desire, and there is nothing straightforward about her treatment of either. Her new novel, Two-Step Devil, stretches her canvas much wider. The themes of family and faith are very much present, and we grow even more familiar with the Lookout Mountain region that has become Quatro’s postage stamp. Her ambition is large, and religious belief still frames that ambition ... Quatro is never sentimental. One of the achievements of Two-Step Devil is the way the encounter with the young girl leads the Prophet forward, not entirely out of his delusional visions but away from their dominance and toward a simpler sublime ... She will not let us have the happy ending we might prefer. The words that end this morally difficult, emotionally devastating account of a young foster child sound like an accusation but feel like a plea. \'This is a story we all know,\' Quatro writes, as we tumble where we hoped the story wouldn’t go. \'Don’t you dare call it a crime.\' There is something startling in that direct address, something moving in the assertion of collective ownership, collective responsibility.\
Adam Gopnik
RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksWhat makes Gopnik’s account so powerful for educators is that he’s seemingly not thinking about us at all. He’s caught up in the real work, and there is reverie there ... Gopnik is rapturous talking about real mastery, but as a student in the various fields he explores, he himself muddles along ... [A] real gift.
